Mixtec evangelicals : : globalization, migration, and religious change in a Oaxacan Indigenous group / / Mary I. O'Connor.

Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home co...

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Place / Publishing House:Boulder, Colorado : : University Press of Colorado,, 2016
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 161 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • chapter 1. Ñuu Shaavi, the land of rain
  • chapter 2. Mixtecs and modernity
  • chapter 3. San Juan Mixtepec: Ñuu Vicu, the land of clouds
  • chapter 4. San Juan Diquiyú
  • chapter 5. Colonia Sinaí: los expulsados
  • chapter 6. Four communities compared
  • chapter 7. Mixtec diaspora?
  • chapter 8. Concluding remarks.